Star Overview of Modern Fancy UNIX Desktop Systems
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Aug 2006 22:32 UTC
X11, Window Managers "In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about Xgl, compiz, AIGLX et cetera. It seems that 'Xgl' has become a synonym for fancy desktop on Linux - but no one seems to talk about the alternatives or how it all works. I have had a little look into this and am going to summarize it for y'all. I will explain where the following come from and how they work: Xglx, Xegl, Luminocity, and AIGLX."
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RE[4]: Metacity?
by panzi on Sun 20th Aug 2006 14:00 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Metacity?"
panzi
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2006-01-22

Indeed. But there a lot of other windowmanagers used by some peple in combination with GNOME. e.g. bluefish and a lot of others. But these days the most common is metacity.

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RE[5]: Metacity?
by sbergman27 on Sun 20th Aug 2006 14:16 in reply to "RE[4]: Metacity?"
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2005-07-24

"""But there a lot of other windowmanagers used by some peple in combination with GNOME. e.g. bluefish and a lot of others."""

Bluefish can act as a window manager now?

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RE[6]: Metacity?
by nazim on Sun 20th Aug 2006 14:23 in reply to "RE[5]: Metacity?"
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2006-02-28

I think he/she might have meant sawfish.

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